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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:55:46
Message-Id: 49D0188A.3050203@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts by Allan Gottlieb
1 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2 > I suspect I am missing some useful fonts as various web pages have funny
3 > chars and would appreciate suggestions as to which ones to emerge.
4 >
5 > My current list follows. Thanks in advance for any help.
6 > allan
7 >
8 > ================================================================
9 >
10 > allan gottlieb # eix --installed --only-names font
11 > app-admin/eselect-fontconfig
12 > dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended
13 > media-fonts/corefonts
14 > media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi
15 > media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi
16 > media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1
17 > media-fonts/font-alias
18 > media-fonts/font-bh-type1
19 > media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
20 > media-fonts/font-misc-misc
21 > media-fonts/font-util
22 > media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std
23 > media-libs/fontconfig
24 > x11-apps/mkfontdir
25 > x11-apps/mkfontscale
26 > x11-libs/libXfont
27 > x11-libs/libXfontcache
28 > x11-libs/libfontenc
29 > x11-proto/fontcacheproto
30 > x11-proto/fontsproto
31 > x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto
32 > allan gottlieb #
33 >
34 >
35
36 I did this for you to compare:
37
38 root@smoker / # eix --installed --only-names font
39 app-admin/eselect-fontconfig
40 media-fonts/aquafont
41 media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi
42 media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi
43 media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi
44 media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1
45 media-fonts/font-alias
46 media-fonts/font-bh-ttf
47 media-fonts/font-bh-type1
48 media-fonts/font-bitstream-type1
49 media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
50 media-fonts/font-ibm-type1
51 media-fonts/font-misc-misc
52 media-fonts/font-util
53 media-fonts/freefont-ttf
54 media-fonts/freefonts
55 media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-other
56 media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std
57 media-fonts/liberation-fonts
58 media-fonts/unifont
59 media-fonts/urwvn-fonts
60 media-libs/fontconfig
61 x11-apps/mkfontdir
62 x11-apps/mkfontscale
63 x11-libs/libXfont
64 x11-libs/libXfontcache
65 x11-libs/libfontenc
66 x11-proto/fontcacheproto
67 x11-proto/fontsproto
68 x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto
69 root@smoker / #
70
71 That help?
72
73 Dale
74
75 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>